Ep. 157: Thru Hiking the CDT with the Whole Family - Cindy Ross
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Cindy is a lifelong avid hiker who has conquered the Appalachian Trail solo, thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with her husband and then went on to complete the Continental Divide Trail with her husband and two young kids. She’s written books about each one of these adventures plus a few more. Listen in to hear her tales! Check out the ASP Bookshelf for Cindy's book and more.
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| 0:00.0 | It was so bad and so windy, and we couldn't, when we had to crawl on our bellies to get away from the saddle and on the backside of the mountain. |
| 0:09.5 | And my kids were really pretty scared, and we were scared. |
| 0:13.1 | We didn't know what to do when we couldn't stay on the trail. This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:38.4 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:43.4 | Episode 157, Cindy Ross talks about hiking the Continental Divide Trail with her husband and small children. |
| 1:03.7 | Okay. All right. Thanks for tuning into another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | This is Travis. |
| 1:12.3 | Since through hiking season is just about upon us, I wanted to find another through hiker to talk to you guys and explain and share their experiences. So I found Cindy Ross. And some of you may have heard of Cindy Ross. |
| 1:17.7 | She's a longtime, an avid through hiker. She's got the crippled truck. |
| 1:26.1 | She has a triple crown, which means she's completed all three of the Appalachian Trail, |
| 1:31.8 | the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific Crest Trail. |
| 1:35.2 | The neat thing about it is she's written books on each one of them. |
| 1:38.7 | When she did the Appalachian Trail, she did it as a solo woman hiker, which is impressive in and of itself. |
| 1:45.6 | And then she did the Pacific Crest Trail with her husband. |
| 1:48.4 | And then the craziest thing is she decided with her husband to do the Continental Divide Trail with their two young children. |
| 1:55.9 | And we're going to get into that a little bit because, one, that's near and dear to our hearts the continental divide trail but it's |
| 2:01.8 | also interesting because not a lot of people take children on this trail and this is something |
| 2:05.6 | i definitely want to hear a lot about so Cindy thanks for joining me sure it's nice to be here thanks |
| 2:10.5 | good to have you so let's get into your background a little bit before we get into the the more |
| 2:16.5 | current stuff the App appellation trail |
| 2:19.0 | what spurred you to go uh go tackle this one as a single woman um i joined our local hiking |
| 2:27.2 | club when i was 15 i had a boyfriend back then when i was young and we didn't have a lot of money |
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